So, not so much in the workshop the last few days, but out working a bit of ground. We done a load of clearing over the Christmas with a 14.5 ton digger. The place was gone very wild in a few spots and there was a few gardens nearly completely overgrown with briars and scrub.
Dad took a notion last Thursday morning that he wanted to buy a spring time cultivator. They had one here years ago but it seems to have walked off, along with many other things including a tractor, but that’s a story for another day. Anyway, Thursday afternoon we went and bought this.
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I’m told it’s an MF but no plate or any sign of a manufacturers mark on it, not that it makes any odds to us. 6ft wide. Gave the gardens a couple of pulls of it and it worked a treat. There are no depth wheels with it either but was sound working on the lift. Would they be much or any an advantage on it?
After a few pulls of that cultivator we pulled another one out of a hedge that’s around as long as dad can remember. I enquired about what colour it was as I’m intending on freshening it up a bit and was assured it was rusty as long as he can remember so I’d imagine it’d be at least 60 years old. Needed a few bolts changed and washers welded on to keep it together as the rust is getting to it a bit in spots but it worked very well. Left a nice fine finish after it. It could do with a full set of points/tips as they’re nearly all work back to nothing but all the springs are sound in it and the frame is fairly good too.
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So if anyone knows anything about the second harrow let me know. Plate is missing off it. No idea of the make but there seems to be an odd spot of red paint on it, whether it’s just bits of primer or if it actually was red I don’t know.
This garden got a run of the steel rake to take out the bits of roots and some of the stones missed during picking. It’s as level and as good a finish as a lawn. We shook grass seed and fertiliser in it yesterday and just as we were finishing up it got a shower of rain. We’ll tackle into the walls when the grass is up a bit in it. Things are currently rather busy with college so that has to come first.
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I’m sure there’ll be a few of ye wondering why we didn’t take out the wall and let it into one big field and take down the tree. I reckon the garden could be more useful the way it is than if it was let into the field. There was also a wall splitting that garden into 2 just beside the tree and were thinking of running a fence in it again. We’re hoping to get into sheep when we get the groundworks finished up and the garden is just behind the sheds so hoping they’ll be a convenient place to keep ewes and lambs for the first few days to keep an eye on them before they’re let off properly to grass.